fossilized

Alternative forms

 * (UK)

Adjective

 * 1) In a state of fossilization; preserved in rock
 * 2) outmoded
 * 3)  having become a fossil: no longer productive
 * A in a language is a word which has fallen out of use except for in set phrases: e.g. the English word fro, used only in to and fro. A fossilized bound morpheme (e.g. a fossilized affix) is one which was once able to derive words, but which now only exists as a fixed component of words: e.g. the English abstract noun–forming suffix -th.

Synonyms

 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:obsolete or Thesaurus:unfashionable

Translations

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 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: અશ્મિભૂત
 * Hungarian:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: fosilizat
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: fossiliserad